Best 292 quotes in «tennis quotes» category

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.

My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.

My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it.

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.

Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.